Hans Zimmer has some big shoes to fill. Superman fans have associated John Williams’ iconic score with the Big Blue Boyscout since 1978, with everything from Smallville to Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns picking up queues from the master. And really, who can blame them? Williams’ scores exude epic. If I ever have to battle some menace from the stars, it’s a John Williams’ score that I’m pulling up on my iPod.

WaterTower Records has made 60-second snippets of the entire Man of Steel soundtrack available to preview here… From the sound of it, Zimmer has ditched the Williams score and worked some magic of his own. It’s certainly cinematic, I can’t wait to hear it in action when Man of Steel hits theaters on June 14th!